CGIAR Integrated Systems Approach

to Research on Sustainable Intensification

R. Asiedu, I. Hoeschle-Zeledon, and E. Koper

IITA

Sustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa: Project Design Workshop, Tamale, Ghana, 9-12 January 2012

Vision and system level outcomes

Vision: • To reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health

and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international agricultural research, partnership and leadership

Outcomes:• reducing rural poverty• improving food security• improving nutrition and health• sustainable management of natural resources

CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs)

• The ongoing change process will in the near future see the operations of the CGIAR implemented through a number Research Programs (CRPs).

• These are aimed to better coordinate R4D efforts, enhance efficiencies, and encourage cooperation and collaboration with a focus on effective partnerships to achieve more development impacts.

CGIAR System on-going Reforms

Food security, Poverty, Natural Resources, Under-nutrition

Impact by 2025 Impact by 2025

Increase yield 60%Increase yield 60%

Sustain annual growth 0.5 % Sustain annual growth 0.5 %

RReduce poverty 15 %educe poverty 15 %

CGIAR Research ProgramsCode Title Lead Center

1.1 Integrated production systems in dry areas ICARDA

1.2 Integrated systems for the humid tropics IITA

1.3 Aquatic agricultural systems WorldFish

2 Policies, institutions and markets IFPRI

3.1 Wheat CIMMYT

3.2 Maize CIMMYT

3.3 GRiSP – A global rice science partnership IRRI

3.4 Roots, tubers and bananas CIP

3.5 Grain legumes ICRISAT

3.6 Dryland cereals ICRISAT

3.7 Meat, milk and fish ILRI

4 Agriculture for nutrition and health IFPRI

5 Water, land and ecosystems IWMI

6 Forests, trees and agroforestry CIFOR

7 Climate change, agriculture, food security CIAT

Production systems

CRP 1.2 Humidtropics Domain

Markets NRM integrity

CRP 1.1

Dryland

systems

CRP 1.3

Aquatic

systems

CRP 3: Commodities Grain legumes

Roots, Tubers, & Bananas

Assessment of new crop varieties/breeds and best management/husbandry technologies

value addition

Integrated Soil Fertility

Management

forest margins

carbon dynamics

policy support

Livestock & Fish

Humidtropics R4D Impact Model

CRP 1.1 Target Systems

• Areas/systems with the deepest endemic poverty and most vulnerable populations often associated with severe natural resource degradation and extreme environmental variability.

• Systems with the greatest potential for impact on poverty in the short to medium term

CRP 1.1 Strategic Research Themes

• SRT 1: Approaches and models for strengthening innovation systems, building stakeholder innovation capacity, and linking knowledge to policy action

• SRT 2: Reducing vulnerability and managing risk, leading to resilient dryland agro-ecosystems with less vulnerable and improved livelihoods of rural communities

• SRT 3: Sustainable intensification for more productive, profitable and diversified dryland agriculture with well-established linkages to markets

• SRT 4: Measuring impact and cross-regional synthesis

SRT1. Better functioning innovation systems

1.1 Innovation

models

1.3 Policy

1.2 Partners

SRT4. Targeting, characterization & impact

4.1 Future scenarios 4.3 Measuring impact

4.2 Characterization and prioritization

SRT2. Reduced vulnerability

& risk

SRT3. Sustainable intensification

2.1 Design2.2 Scaling out2.3 Trade-offs

3.1 Design3.2 Scaling out3.3 Trade-offs

Overview of CRP1.1 Strategic Research Themes (SRTs) & their Outputs

CRP 1.1 Benchmark Areas focusing on reducing vulnerability (SRT2 type) or on sustainable intensification (SRT3 type). Circles/ovals indicate the 5 target regions

Action Site Transects and Satellite Sites in the West African Sahel and dry savannas

Impact zones and IITA hubs

Production system platforms Collaborative platforms

USAID Feed the future

AGRA & BMGF

Millennium villages

Regional priorities

FARA learning sites

Integration of IITA research with CRPs

Biotech &Genetic

Improvement

CRP 3.4,

NRM

CRP 5, CRP 1.2,CRP 7

Social Science&Commercialization

CRP 2, CRP 4

Humidtropics and System integrationCRP 1.2

Gender and M&ECapacity building

DDG-R

D2 D3 D4

Plant production&

healthCRP 3.5,CRP 3.2

D5

CentralAfrica

SouthernAfrica

EastAfrica

WestAfrica

D1

Biotechnology & Genetic

Improvement

CRP 3.4

D2

NRM

CRP 5, CRP 1.2,

CRP 7

D3

Social Sciences & Commercialization

CRP 2, CRP 4

D4

PlantProduction &

HealthCRP 3.5, CRP

3.2

D5